Tag: Orthodox
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THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
It is difficult to determine the exact number of practicing (regular church) Orthodox Christians, it is only certain that the majority of self-identified as such do not know what God’s commandments are or what the Orthodox Catechism teaches, because they are from the so-called “Christmas Christians” ( celebrating Christmas and Easter in a family circle)…
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The Orthodox Church and the Lutherans – An ecumenical correspondence from 1573 to 1581
The ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah II comments on the Confession of Augsburg The 25th September 1559 Philipp Melanchton wrote in a circular letter to a number of friends, that he the very day had dispatched a letter to the Patriarch of the church of Byzans – the spiritual head of the orthodox churches. With the letter he…